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Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — America’s fourth and eighth grade students’ sliding reading scores worsened in 2024, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which has been dubbed the nation’s report card. “The nation’s report card is out and the news is not good,” National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner Peggy […]
Prince Williams/WireImage, Cindy Ord/WireImage, Prince Williams/WireImage It’s been 26 years since Brandy and Monica won a Grammy for their “The Boy is Mine” collaboration, and now they’re waiting to see if the song’s updated version will bring something home at the Grammy Awards Sunday. Featured on Ariana Grande‘s remix of “The Boy is Mine,” which […]
Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl halftime show is approaching, and according to TDE’s Top Dawg, “it’s about to be a movie.” He shared those words on his Instagram Story Monday over a photo of him and K. Dot’s manager, Dave Free, watching the rehearsals for the big show. In other Kendrick news, he’s teamed with Willy Chavarria, the […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Monday that reverse several Biden administration initiatives related to the military and deliver on promises he made on the campaign trail. Trump signed the orders while onboard Air Force One, White House staff secretary Will Scharf told reporters. “First is an executive […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the mystery drones flown across New Jersey in late 2024 were “authorized to be flown by the FAA” in the first press briefing of President Donald Trump’s second administration. “I do have news directly from the president of the United States that was […]
Samuel Corum/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing on Tuesday, faced a barrage of questions on the administration’s freeze on federal financial assistance programs that congressional Democrats called flatly illegal. Agencies face a 5 p.m. ET deadline to comply with a memo from the White […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s rapid reshaping of the federal government continues with executive orders and action from his acting agency heads. Federal departments face a 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday to cease spending on any financial assistance programs, according to a memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. More firings of […]
Briana Stewart/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A person arrested outside of the Capitol with a knife and two potential incendiary devices told officers they wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and also leveled threats against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to newly unsealed charging documents. Ryan English allegedly approached officers […]
Photo by Joy Malone/Getty Images Laila! is heading on her very first tour. The Gap Year Tour! will start March 27 in San Francisco. Laila! will also make stops in LA, Houston, Atlanta, New York, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago and Pontiac, Michigan, before wrapping up in Toronto on April 27. “attention passengers ,,, im going on […]
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a scathing letter Tuesday, Caroline Kennedy warned senators about her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a “predator.” The letter was sent to lawmakers ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation hearing for the role of secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), which […]
